Remember the Office “Genuine Advantage” notifications from a few weeks back? Guess what, they had problems..just like the Windows Genuine Advantage rollout.
Turns out the update went to “managed clients inside and outside of these intended countries” (emphasis, mine) according to a post on Microsoft’s WSUS Product Team blog. According to Joe Wilcox at Microsoft Watch, [...]
Microsoft has no fix for it yet, but an update to Windows Defender for Vista is reportedly stopping USB devices from responding for some users. the Register is reporting some users’ mice/keyboards have stopped working. Microsoft is aware of the problem and is investigating.
Planning to reinstall all of the software on your computer? Do you know where your product keys and software serial numbers are? Ever since Microsoft started attaching their activation codes to CD sleeves, the sleeve has become as valuable as the CD. Lose it, and you are up the creek, without a paddle…until people found [...]
Just a thought, and you may have thought of this before, so if you have, bear with me. When you buy an OEM version of WindowsXP service pack 2, you have to “validate” it against Microsoft’s server, either over the web, or on the phone.What happens when Microsoft either A) decides to no longer support [...]
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